Lebenserfahrung (sentence)
English translation: far removed from reality
| 11:38 Aug 12, 2004 |
| German to English translations [PRO] Law/Patents - Law (general) | |||||||
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| 4 +1 | far removed from reality |
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| 4 +1 | Everything we know from life tells us a different story. |
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| 3 +2 | Common sense would tell us otherwise..................... |
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| 4 | personal experience |
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personal experience Explanation: is what I would say in English -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 8 mins (2004-08-12 11:46:22 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- personal experience speaks against this |
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| The asker has declined this answer Comment: Thank you for your help. But in this case it didn't fit the context. | ||
2 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1far removed from reality Explanation: A little more context wouldn't hurt, but I suspect they mean "this far removed from reality" -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 8 mins (2004-08-12 11:46:39 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Re your question: If this has a legal background, I\'d go with the more formal \"far removed from reality\" -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 24 mins (2004-08-12 12:02:22 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Or - having seen Andrew\'s comments - you could flesh it out a bit by saying \"This could hardly be considered normal under any circumstances\" |
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5 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1Everything we know from life tells us a different story. Explanation: OR This in no way accords with most people's experience, however. or similar... ;-) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 15 mins (2004-08-12 11:53:37 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Note to Alex: I\'m not too happy with Ian\'s suggestion, though as he says more context would help. I think you need to fill it out a bit: \"This is far removed from most people\'s experience.\" or similar. I think \"reality\" on its own is insufficient - the sentence may well be trying to get the readers on side and imply \"I bet you\'ve never experienced something like this, either.\" If you put this is far from reality or similar, it just sounds like the author\'s opinion (giving no justification), whereas what he/she wrote is trying to convince the reader\'s to agree with him in the light of their own experience. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 39 mins (2004-08-12 12:17:36 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I wish you\'d given us the context to start with - I wouldn\'t have proposed these answers if I\'d known it was a judge or prosecutor talking! (Always give full context!) I would now be tempted to change it to: \"That hardly sounds very likely, does it?\" [This is what would be said by an English-speaker, I believe.] OR if you need to be a bit closer to the original, then \"We know from real life that that cannot be so.\" I think it would be very hard to match the German construction more closely w/o it sounding very unnatural. |
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2 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +2
peer agreement (net): +2Common sense would tell us otherwise..................... Explanation: Hopefully, common sense is what we acquire from having lived for a while. This may work in the conext. |
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